Putin’s Showdown With Terror

Russian President Vladimir Putin is augmenting security for the upcoming Winter Olympics in southern Russia in the hope of preventing possible Islamic terrorist attacks at the international sporting event.

Putin tried to reassure Russian media that visitors will be safe at the Olympics that will take place from Feb. 6 through Feb. 23 in Sochi in the Caucusus mountains in the region of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea, not too far from Russia’s land border with Georgia. Islamists have already threatened to attack the games and authorities are searching for potential suicide bomber Ruzanna Ibragimova, the 22-year-old widow of a jihadist killed by Russian security forces who may have traveled from Dagestan to Sochi. Last week three security officers and four militants who may have been planning attacks on the Olympics were killed in a gunfight.

Parts of Russia are reportedly turning into armed camps as authorities crack down on protests and perceived anti-government activities in the sprawling nation with a significant Muslim minority.

About 40,000 members of Russia’s police and security forces will patrol the events, he said, and elite Spetsnaz fighters will be guarding against violent Muslim separatists.

“We will try to make certain that the security measures are not intrusive or too conspicuous, so they are not too noticeable for the athletes, the Olympics’ guests or journalists,” Putin said. “But at the same time, we will do our utmost to ensure that they are effective.”

Russian authorities have created a large security zone around Sochi, deployed thousands of extra police and troops, and are spending billions of dollars to keep the games safe. Submarines are patrolling the Black Sea coast while drones keep an eye on the host city from above. S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems are in place, capable of blowing hijacked aircraft out of the sky.

Sochi may as well have a giant bulls-eye painted over it. It stretches more than 60 miles and the Olympic Stadium, media complex, and ice hockey, speed skating, and figure skating facilities are located on the coast. A 44-mile express train route runs from the shore through the mountains to one of the two Olympic Villages, ski runs, and luxury hotels, generating headaches for security experts.

Critics are worried that Putin can’t guarantee security for athletes and tourists in the wake of last month’s Islamist bomb attacks in Volgograd that left more than 30 dead. The U.S. Department of State warns that Americans planning to visit Sochi should be vigilant about security because of potential terrorist threats, crime, and unreliable medical care.

Although former CIA Director Michael Hayden said he’s confident in Putin’s ability to provide the needed security, some American politicians aren’t convinced aren’t convinced that Putin is shooting straight.

After the FBI announced this month they would be deploy special agents to Sochi to assist the Russians in counterterrorism activities, House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), called on Putin’s government to be more cooperative in sharing intelligence with the United States before the games begin.

“Their level of concern is great, but we don’t seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the games,” said Rogers. “I think this needs to change, and it should change soon,” he told CNN.

Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he didn’t plan to attend the games himself – “and I don’t think I would send my family,” King told CNN.

“It’s a very serious fear because the Olympics are being held in an area where there’s a history of terrorist activity, where there’s been a lot of tension between Islamists in that area and the government of Russia,” King said.

Hosting the Olympics in Sochi is fraught with risk, according to Der Spiegel.

“For years, tensions have been brewing in the region east of the Black Sea city. Riots continuously erupt between Russians and Caucasians. The federal subjects of Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya and Dagestan — only some 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Sochi — are active operational zones for Islamist terrorists. In the past year, 33 attacks shook the North Caucasus. Since October alone, 139 people have been killed by terrorists. Back in September at a meeting of the Security Council of Russia, Putin called for the mobilization of all forces to ensure the safety of the Winter Games.”

Dagestan was in the news in the U.S. last year because it has a connection to terrorism stateside. The late Boston Marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev frequented a radical mosque in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, during a six-month visit to that politically unstable, jihadist-friendly Russian republic. The mosque is reportedly a terrorist hangout.

Three years ago Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) warned the U.S. government about Tsarnaev, saying he could be an Islamic terrorist, but those admonitions went unheeded in Washington, D.C.

The clueless bunglers at Obama’s Department of Homeland Security haven’t stopped much of anything in recent years. When a terrorist attack has been foiled, it has been stopped because the plot was uncovered inadvertently (e.g. Faisal Shahzad) or because by-standers took action (e.g. “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab).

And if Putin’s forces learn of legitimate terrorist threats related to Sochi, unlike his American counterpart he won’t be handicapped by politically correct rules drafted to prevent minority groups from being inconvenienced.

Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative reporter and the author of the book, "Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers."

elizabeth cohen

Are these muslims nuts!! You are fucking with the wrong man people. Stay clear of Putin. He has balls, not like our president. However, we Americans have the balls so look out for us.

http://subversioninc.com Matthew Vadum

Putin definitely has cojones.

Silver Garcia

Obama has the balls of a grasshopper as do his supporters. If I ever had the power, I would outlaw all left of center political parties.

DrCrimwitt

Don’t forget to outlaw Sharia law and Islam. Make Christian bashing a federal hate crime punishable by 30 year in prison, get rid of the department of indoctrination, the IRS, NSA and most other useless Government bureaucracy that steals our money.

Phil Slipper

“the balls of a grasshopper”! – I love it. It’s accurate too.

BS77

Putin is doing all he can to insure the safety and security of the winter Olympics. If it means attacking the terror vermin, so be it. At least he is doing SOMETHING. Remember Benghazi….and FDNY 9/11 NEVER FORGET.

SCREW SOCIALISM

I must question the focus on the FDNY. and the NYPD.

Most of the people who dies on 9/11 were not FDNY or NYPD.

Never Forget those who died in the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks!

Ryo Zangetsu

Just so you know, american soil is near to being sold-out to muslims, andwhat will the americans gonna do about these ”trojan horse religion called islam?” If you dont get what i mean then theres no doubt america will fall and all you do is talk.

elizabeth cohen

I know what you mean and I have been ready for a long time. I told my friends to stop pissing and moaning and let’s do something. One said make sure you vote. I tried that last time, it did not work. There is a lot we can do but we have to find each other in order to do it.

Shirley Ann Smith-Rhodes

If anyone can handle this, Putin can! Vladimir Putin is a Good Leader for Russia.. He is Russian and loves his country! He is a Christian and loves Jesus Christ! He shows his love of his country and of Jesus Christ in all of his actions! – Obama is not qualified to occupy our White House since he is not the son of two U.S. Citizens which our Constitution requires! He is not American and does not love America. Therefore he is a bad Leader! Obama is a sunni Muslim! He loves islam and the most beautiful sound to Obama is the muslim call to Prayer! Obama does not love Christians! According to the 2010 Census results, 80% of the Citizens of
America are Christian! Obama shows his intense dislike for America and especially for Christian Americans in all of his actions. Final Analysis, Obama is Ineligible to be President of the United States! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zPRYmTSeOpSvXr0rXVun-WIw1OtWxYY9dOstdQmMIqo/edit?pli=1

ConcernedCitizen999

Well said.

SCREW SOCIALISM

KGB Putin doesn’t give a crap about what a progressive wants.

KGB Putin is ruthless in putting down the islamofascists threatening and killing people in Russia.

It’s a matter of pride.

So where are the “progressive” peace activists? The conflict tourists?

Silent – or else.

KGB Putin takes no prisoners.

“F” the Left.

Ryo Zangetsu

Just so you know american soil is already being nearly sold-out to muelims, what will americans actions will be against this ”trojan horse religion called islam?”

SCREW SOCIALISM

True.

truebearing

The US wants Russia to share intelligence? Why, so they can give it to the Muslims in our CIA or FBI? Why would Putin trust Obama where Muslims are involved? He knows what Obama did in Egypt, Syria, Libya, etc. He knows where Obama’s loyalties lie.

Even if Russia did share intelligence, we wouldn’t act on it.

Putin should have his head examined for choosing Sochi for the Olympics. After all of that money is spent on luxury hotels, etc., who wants to go vacation with the Chechens?

Silver Garcia

Very good point. US Government and US Intelligence is full of Muslim sympathizers and Israel haters. Many of the guests at the upcoming Anti Israel Fest are frequent guests on Russia Today; MIchael Scheuer and Phillip Garaldi. Both are ex-CIA things and rabidly anti Israel, perhaps the tiniest country in the ME where Christians and Jews can live with dignity.

SCREW SOCIALISM

Anybody who works for or willingly appears on RT can rightly be suspected of hating America.

And SCREW that shriveled idiotic fossil larry king.

defcon 4

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Why would any decent country share intelligence w/a CIA and FBI that have been subverted and infiltrated by islam0nazis?

Drakken

I completely agree with your assessment, the Russians were giving the US intel on muslim jihadist and we chose to ignore and cover up for it, so the Russians in their view look at it like this, go eff yourselves if you don’t like what we give you because you chose to ignore it, because you don’t want to hurt some muslims bloody feelings. Always remember the Russians play chess and ole Putin is ten steps ahead, and Obummer and his minions can’t figure out how to put the pieces on the board.

Softly Bob

Maybe he wants to lure them all in so that he can rip their heads off!

Robert Hunter

It’s a set up, Putin chose Sochi to tempt the terrorists so he can have an excuse to exterminate his Muslim enemy.

ConcernedCitizen999

If Putin needed an “excuse to exterminate his Muslim enemy” it was called “Beslan”. But after Beslan, Putin did … nothing.
Putin’s supposed “showdown with terror” is all about the show.

And the premise that this is about “terror”, the so-called “war on terror”, is false, it’s a lie a deception and a deflection, the problem is Islam, all of Islam.
After Beslan, Putin in Russia could have dynamited all the mosques and burned all the Korans, but he did nothing. Instead Russia is on course to become a majority Muslim country in this century.

If you’re looking for a modern day Vlad Tepes, you’ll have to look elsewhere than to the likes of Vladimir Putin.

Drakken

You haven’t seen anything yet from ole Vlad, but current events have made it impossible for Vlad to ignore it, he will go on the war path, the less you hear about it except for rumors, you know he is getting the job done.

Ray Tate

If Your comment is true, It will be the best thing Putin could ever do for his country. Use the games to lore the terrorist in then just eliminate [vaporize] these parasites with an organized operation. Maybe its time Russia built their own Iron Curtain bordering the Caucasus Chechnya. keep them there. Kill them there. Go Putin!

SCREW SOCIALISM

That “curtain” will be stacks of jihadi carcasses..

But WHY OH WHY is KGB Putin giving weapons to Fascist iran???

Drakken

Russias view is very simple, let the muslims fight each other to their little jihadist content, that way there are less for the Russians to kill on their own territory.

SCREW SOCIALISM

Letting Muslims fight each other is why the 8 year Iraq/Iran war was a good thing, and the nature of the beast.

SCREW SOCIALISM

I hope you are right.

The War against Islamofascism is ON.

defcon 4

That would be great. I just hope the POS in the US presidential palace tries to take on the Russian bear.

http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

No place is safe from the threat of jihadi violence. As I’ve been saying for some time, Russia has the longest boarder with the Islamic world and if we pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan, the jihad will be directed towards Russia and India as it has been in the past. We need to support those two countries in their crackdown on jihadi.

Our media continues to blame Putin and make excuses for the jihadi. They (including Fox) describe jihad as a response to Russian policies. Of course, we were told that 9/11 was a response to American policies by anti-American leftists and many foreigners. It’s sad that now that Russia is under fire our media takes the jihadi side.

Softly Bob

Jihadi activity is a response to every country’s policies, every country that is not Muslim, that is.

http://libertyandculture.blogspot.com/ Jason P

To be exact, jihad is a response to every country’s refusal to submit to Islam. Syria shows that even Muslim nations face jihad if they don’t practice Islam as a Salafi would decree.

mcbee555

Jihad is a response to anyone, anything, any government that’s not operating according to sharia law.

bob smith

Matthew, sorry to say this, but I am hoping that carnage arises from these islamofascists.
This will force the lame stream media to report on terrorism in the name of their religion of peace AND unlike in Boston, we will see a true patriot act on the offensive to drive the final wedge into the barbaric hearts of these islamofascists.
Let’s then see how the caliphate resident of The White House looks after said carnage wrought by his people.
Munich went a long way to dispelling any myths of these psychopaths for the whole world to see on such a singular stage at one time.

logdon

Yet since Munich the PLO, Fatah and Arafat went from strength to strength.

Nipped in the bud by overwheming military might they’d be a mere jihadi pity party memory such as the Nakba, instead the relativists marched in, offered cover and we are where we are.

Where we are is Kerry running around like a blue arsed fly in search of his own personal Eldorado of a Nobel Prize.

It’s patently obvious that facts are mere obstructions to their own personal fictions and I’ll include the deluded Israeli left with a demented Livni as their figurehead.

My view is that we’ve seen carnage aplenty and whether Beslan, the London Bombing, Madrid’s Atocha Station or the appalling atrocity of the Trade Center, given a few years of almost token grief it’s all destined to an almost, so what fate.

Iran is rapidly on course to gain it’s own nuclear club membership and still the relativists shill for this homicidal theocratic state.

If and when a missile is detected on its way to Tel Aviv, or Rome or, given the mutual hostility, Mecca or Jedda what then?

Still the wry shrug? The half smile of benign tolerancy? A vile Hillary posturing about, at this point what difference does it make?

Is there such a thing as the tolerant irradiated dead because given the way it’s going, that will be our fate.

Duck and cover was the now derided mantra of the desk diving Cold War.

Today’s is cluck and cower in the face of the jihadi.

So, Sochi? A litmus test or yet more of the yet more?

I’m putting my money on the latter.

Drakken

It has to get a lot worse before we can begin to fix it, and that time is coming to us in spades, hold on to you hats, it is going to be a very rough ride.

Jacques

Sadly, realistically, I must agree.

bob smith

I agree…more carnage ahead but my desire is for the extent of the carnage to be excessive while the world is watching so that the cat is out of the bag for all to see without the lame stream media’s lies.

true enough, but my point was that for the first time on a world scale, everyone saw the savages to be none other than the 7th C barbarians they always will be.

defcon 4

“This will force the lame stream media to report on terrorism in the name of their religion of peace…” I think your statement is naive.

bob smith

on a re-read, face value, you would be correct…it was my poor stab at sarcasm.

defcon 4

I see now, your whole comment was sarcasm. I should’ve of seen it, sometimes it’s hard to tell.

bob smith

no worries. if we ever believed the lamo media would do anything other than fawn over their caliphate, a new day of reckoning would finally be upon us.

rt90k

I do not think the media is infiltrated by Moslems to the extent the US government is, but their blind liberal ideology might account for their non-or-moribund coverage (at best) of jihad, since I believe the term “jihad” has been erased from official US government usage.

bob smith

true enough…for the media. jihad/mooselams=diversity

Softly Bob

Nukes have only been used on the Japanese so far. Instead of letting them sit there getting rusty, isn’t it about time that they were used for creating a firework display over dar-al-Islam?

JVictor

Putin believes that his socialist empire can withstand the irresistible force of Islamic extremism. Putin will not have to deal with the cries of political correctness should he have to order some decisive strikes. Maybe then the world will see that the only way to deal with radical Islam is to crush it. And, once again, the Russians lead the way.

defcon 4

You had me going until you mentioned the PC neologism “radical islam”.

JVictor

You most certainly have a point. In order to be true to their book, all infidels must die or convert.

DontMessWithAmerica

Never liked the s.o.b., but now pray for him. He may be the free world’s best hope in treating the muzzies as they need to be treated to get results.

SCREW SOCIALISM

Islamofascist pigs put the cart before the horse and claim there is a War on Islam – and keep killing innocents all over the World until there finally is a War on Islam,

Drakken

Who would have ever thought in a million years that a lot of us Americans are rooting for a Russian eh? Times in the US are dire indeed. Don’t get me wrong for I am rooting for Putin to succeed as well, it seems he is the only one with a clear vision to get things done to save his people.

By effectively resisting (eventually after Stalingrad was almost engulfed) he kept Hitlers armies away from us Brits which is why Churchill and by extension Roosevelt courted him.

However by then he’d slaughtered 20/30 million White Russian Kulaks yet via the NYT’s Walter Duranty, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and a whole host of British Fabian proto-socialists, his atrocities were airbrushed out of sight.

He went to the trouble of erecting his happy, smiley Potemkin Villages which like Hitler’s removal of anti-semitic symbols during the the 1936 Summer Olympics were designed as camouflage and it worked.

Putin may be reviled but he is not in the same league as our befriended monster and the old, my enemy’s enemy is my friend, just as in WW2 still holds.

I still raise a wry smile at Hillary’s puerile antics with her big red ‘Reset’ bit of idiocy and in a way that sums the whole thing up.

Putin is a serious world leader.

Obama is a privileged man/boy who because of his pampered affirmative action upbringing is incapable of any prism of reality of the real world.

That he got a second term has to be the greatest mistake in current world history.

Drakken

I completely concur with that. Funny how Putin plays for keeps and these feckless spineless leaders we have today fold to the slightest wind. Tragic really.

mcbee555

The only “due process” that Moscow will give apprehended terrorists, if they’re kept alive at capture, is a world-televised court trial and execution. There won’t be any Eric Holder-types there to hold long-winded exhibition trials. The FSB has had experiences with U.S. FBI forces in the past, warnings from Russia went undeveloped and terrorists succeeded in their missions. That’s probably why the Russian FSB isn’t very cooperative with the FBI. Also, there’s no doubt that the Russians feel their police forces more adequate than an FBI contingent, especially on Russian national territory. The Kremlin has been dealing with Islamic-Caucasian terrorist activity for more than 200 years, it’s no wonder why they’re not forthcoming with cooperation to foreign police/investigatory supplementation.

SCREW SOCIALISM

The Ruskies don’t take crap from barbaric islamofascist savage dogs.

I’m putting my money on KGB Putin to go on the offensive and the ‘progressive” crowd being oddly silent.

mcbee555

At this very moment, Russian Special Forces units are sifting through jihadi cells and culling the herd. They won’t get all of them, presently they know they’re on alert for two young Muslim females, at large in the general Sochi vicinity, and already confirmed that they’re intent upon detonating C4 belts they’re wearing. They want to join their deceased jihadi husbands who’ve already entered Islamic “Paradise” while fighting the “infidels.” We’re dealing with a Muslim mind-set cultivated since childhood, there is no mind-changing to be had. Anyone who thinks that’s possible does so at his/her own peril.

defcon 4

“significant Muslim minority”, it seems like a lot of countries that suffer that particular problem have problems w/islam0fascist terrorism.

SCREW SOCIALISM

That’s why the Russian warnings about Chechen terrorist plots in the US were ignored and the Boston Marathon bombing was not prevented

Linda Cohen

The clueless bunglers at Obama’s Department of Homeland Security haven’t stopped much of anything in recent years. When a terrorist attack has been foiled, it has been stopped because the plot was uncovered inadvertently (e.g. Faisal Shahzad) or because by-standers took action (e.g. “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab).

“…in Wichita Kansas the FBI thwarted yet another planned terrorist attack on American soil. This time a 58-year-old avionics employee planned for months to carry out a bombing at a time of day that would cause the most casualties and carnage. In a letter Terry Lee Loewen wrote and left for a family member he stated that by the time the letter was received, if everything went as planned he would have been ‘martyred in the path of Allah.’

Of course, Obama’s policies are awful but the FBI saved lives.

logdon

(e.g. “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab).

Ah but according to your gorgeous, pouting Secretary of Homeland Security, Ms Napolitano, ‘The system worked’.

OK, if the ‘system’ relies upon a fellow traveller spotting clouds of smoke emanating from another traveller’s balls and decides to take action, I guess it did.

The police should arrest all of the family members of the suspects including parents, brothers, sisters, and cousins. Then the government should inform the suspects that should they be responsible for any injuries or deaths all of the members of their family will be executed. And, the Russian government
must follow through with their threat (doing an Obama Red Line act won’t do).
When the suspects realize that their relatives will suffer for their actions they might alter their thinking.

SCREW SOCIALISM

The sand nazis may welcome becoming martyrs for the expected reward of 72 virgins.

Whatever they believe, as long as they can do no harm – we win.

defcon 4

I hope the muslimes experience a virgin shortage in their heavenly whorehouse, due to excessive demand.

defcon 4

I hope Israel goes back to bulldozing the homes of islam0nazis convicted of committing terrorist acts in Israel.

Ryo Zangetsu

King of the north putin vs the third anti christ great deceiver obama and his brotherhood cronies, this is gonna be bloody, i agree with putin, crush them all.!

sendtheclunkerbacktochicago

God help anyone the Russian capture. There will be a whole lot more than waterboardiing going on. Maybe Americans will be able to learn how to interrogate terrorists from the Russians.

Bob Almighty

It should be an interesting showdown. Too bad the Olympians, their families, and the innocent civilians within 500 miles will be the innocent victims.

antioli

When the Communists were in power the Muslim soldiers in the army ganged up on the Russian soldiers individually and bullied them terribly.

defcon 4

Does anyone realize how unreal this all sounds? An Olympic event in which the entire city in which its held has become an armed encampment. I remember seeing photographs of the summer Olympics in Londonistan and the AAA batteries mounted on civilian rooftops. When was the last time London saw AAA batteries mounted? WW2? The Blitz?

Rosasolis

I hope that more people in America and in Europe are beginning to wake up
to the realization that we can no longer ignore the threat of the Islam, which
is increasing everywhere — all over the world!
While more Middle-east and African countries have been suffering from
genocide and terrible attacks daily from Islamic terrorists, our Western Civilization must realize
that the peaceful old days of our normal, peaceful way of life is now threatened.
Vladimir Putin knows this. He is now our ONLY hope of showing the Islam
that our Western Civilization will not be taken over by the Islam Jihad and
their Sharia Law. Several years ago Putin worked together with Jelzin to get rid
of the communists in Russia. Since then we in Europe have been working
well together with Russia in Culture, Industry, Living-Standards, and in Sports.
Netherlands has a very special relationship with Russia.
Although our governments in Europe, and the Europol ( police), are on constant
allert, we realize that not only the Olympics in Sochi are threatened
but our future as a free Western Civilization.
Let’s hope these Olympics can progress and achieve wonderful results for
the sporters without any terrible incidents.
This is why the world needs watchdogs, like Vladimir Putin.

butterfly

“The late Boston Marathon mastermind Tamerlan Tsarneav”
these words and description afford this despicable terrorist much to much honour. He was killed by police for perpetrating a vicious, inhuman act. mastermind..only of evil partnered with the devil himself

Gamal

Unreliable medical care? We have Obamacare and doctor’s who won’t treat because they don’t know if the patients are insured and the Obama administration warns Americans that Sochi doesn’t have reliable medical care? We had the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center destroyed by Muslims in American Air Liners and the Obama administration warns that Russian security is inadequate? The Clinton administration didn’t let the FBI share intelligence with the CIA and the Obama administration forbids spying on Muslims yet complains that Putin isn’t sharing enough intelligence?

antioli

US accused Putin of not cooperating. The US has refused to use our electronic anti bomb technology to help out.